Sitemap - 2022 - STUMP - Meep on public finance, pensions, mortality and more
RIP, Pope Emeritus Benedict - Ring Out 2022 with Dies Irae
Cold Kills: Some Comparisons of Heat and Cold Deaths, 1999-2020
Twitter Files Hits COVID Stats: Good Luck with Rebuilding Trust, CDC
A Very Special STUMP Holiday Episode
Merry Christmas! Have Some Finalized 2021 U.S. Mortality Stats!
More on Correlating COVID Vax Status with Traffic Risk
Geeking Out: What Does COVID Vaccination Status Have to Do With Motor Vehicle Accident Risk?
Ranking the states by COVID age-adjusted death rates
Central States Teamsters -- some backstory on their bailout
Public pension watch: Illinois TRS deeper in the hole, other funds to follow
Central States Teamsters Pension Fund finally gets its bailout money, as planned -- now what?
Movember 2022 Wrap-Up: Fundraising Total, Summary Video, and Post Links
Movember 2022: Prostate Cancer - Geography and Race/Ethnicity
Movember 2022: Men and Drug Overdoses (and Giving Tuesday!)
Movember 2022: Men and Suicide
ESG and ERISA: Pity the Poor Tort Lawyers Their Lost Business as Biden Gives a Safe Harbor For Now
Happy Thanksgiving 2022! Deciphering Historical Death and Actuarial Humor Books
Movember 2022: The Sex Gap in Suicide
FTX, Dickens, and Business Fraud
Read the News with Meep: On Suicide Trends by Race (and Sex) in 2021 (and Earlier)
Lesson from Chester PA: Don't Count Assets You Don't Actually Have, Public Pension Plans
Movember and Prostate Cancer Mortality Trends
Movember 2022: Age Trends in Prostate Cancer Mortality
Election Post-Mortem: New York Karma
Movember 2022: Prostate Cancer Mortality Trend Update
SUMOvember: the tournament is coming!
Simpson's Paradox: Election Day Edition
Memento Movember 2022: the Motivation - Stu and the Sex Mortality Gap
2021 Provisional U.S. Population Mortality
Friday "Fun": U.S. Mortality Update, Podcast on iTunes, and Movember Launch
Geeking Out: Life Insurance and Mortality Experience Studies
Liability-Driven Investment: Definitions and Jargon
Political Risk and Public Pension Investments
Memorial: A Well-Deserved Nobel Peace Prize
On COVID (and all-cause) Mortality and Political Affiliation Studies
Geeking Out: Chatting with a Fellow Actuary about Writing
There is no such thing as risk-free
Weekend Brain Dump: IG Live, Lies and Models, and Sumo!
Taxing Tuesday: Using Taxes as Standing to Sue over Student Loan Forgiveness
A Jump in Interest Rates But No Restraint from Government....Yet
Midweek Quickies: Interest Rates, Sumo, and Podcast Plugs
Data visualization lessons: Jitter charts, screwups, and visionaries
September 2022 Sumo has Started!
World Suicide Prevention Day: U.S. Suicide Trend Update through 2021
We Get Results! The Bogus Death Spike of NC and CT are Now Gone!
Advice on the CDC 2021 Life Expectancy Report
Labor Day 2022 Gift: Public Plans Projection Tool Update!
U.S. life expectancy fell almost 1 year (again) in 2021
Student loan reduction: short-term and long-term effects
More on the Mystery Death Spike of CT and NC (that is totally bogus)
Public Pensions, ESG, DeSantis, and The Catholic Church
A Tale of Know Your Data: The Mystery of the Excess Connecticut Summer Deaths
Teachers at it again: New Jersey Teachers Union Antagonizing Parents
Looking at Recent Mortality Increases -- and Expectations for the Future
One Bad Year? Comparing the Long-Term Public Pension Fund Returns Against Assumptions
Meep's Data Visualization Evolution: Tile Grid Maps
Taxing Tuesday: A Retrospective of Stupid Tax Policy - Soda taxes, Amazon tax, SALT cap
Meep and Media: Podcasts and Videos - Sumo, Fraud, and Math, oh my!
Meep Hits the Road and Plays the Oldies: Today - Silly(ish) Mortality Posts!
Against "Slightly Against Underpopulation Worries"
Expertise, Definitions, and Credibility
Public Pension Returns Start to Roll In for Fiscal Year 2022
On recessions: definitions, Humpty Dumpty, and out-sourcing decision-making
MBTA and Pension Obligation Bonds
The Death of Ivana Trump: Falls are Dangerous for Seniors
Interest Rates and Sumo, Nagoya 2022 Edition
Waiting Patiently on Public Pensions
Top Causes of Death in U.S. for 2021 by Age Group
Yes, COVID was a top cause of death for middle-aged people in 2021
NY Corruption: Hochul, Benjamin, and Chester A. Arthur -- Can You Tell the Difference?
Happy Bobby Bonilla Day for 2022!
Ken Griffin and Citadel Leave Illinois
Indiana Governor wants to give back taxpayer money, but I say give it to the teachers pension fund
Childhood Mortality Trends, 1999-2021 (provisional), Ages 1-17
Social Security Trust Fund Running Out
Fewer than 4000 people just approved boosting Providence Rhode Island liabilities by $515 million
Demo on getting gun death data, reminder on Actuarial News, and reading over Meep's Shoulder
Misleading Gun Death Stats: "Gun Mortality" State Rankings
Misleading Gun Death Stats: "Kids'" gun deaths vs. motor vehicle deaths
Elon Musk, Fertility, and Decreasing Populations
Summer Season Warning: Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning (Plus Drowning Mortality Trends)
Don't perpetrate financial fraud in spreadsheets
U.S. Mortality Trends Through the Pandemic
U.S. Gun Deaths are Mostly Suicides, not Homicides
Top Causes of Death for 2021: Heart Disease, Cancer, and COVID
Don't sell insurance to the Mafia
Troubled Multiemployer Pensions: Central States Teamsters Files for Bailout
All Men Must Die, But They Don't Have to Die in Office
Death, taxes, and entitlements
Process is important: SALT cap and NY redistricting
Pools are more dangerous than Covid to small children
It is Finished: Some Music for Good Friday
2021 U.S. Mortality News Explainer: Life Expectancy, Death Rates, and More
Tax Week and the NY State Budget
Why Has Teen Mortality Increased 31% in 2 Years in the U.S.?
Updating Sean Bean's Mortality Rate
Alcohol-related deaths, part 2: Geographical Differences for 2019 and 2020
Dead is dead: Increased Alcohol-Related Deaths, U.S., 2020-2021
Drug Overdose Deaths, Part 3: Geographical Differences for 2019 and 2020
Drug Overdose Deaths, Part 2: U.S. Age-Related Trends 1999-2020 with Provisional Results in 2021
Drug Overdoses, Part 1: High-Level Trends, 1999-2020
Motor Vehicle Accident Deaths, Part 3: Geographical Differences, 2019 vs 2020
Motor Vehicle Accident Deaths, Part 2: Age-Related Trends with Provisional Results in 2021
Motor Vehicle Accident Deaths: High-Level Trends, 1968-2020, Part 1
Mortality Angle of the Russian/Ukrainian Conflict: Bad Even Before Pandemic
President's Day - Calvin Coolidge
The Geography of Homicide -- States, Base Rates, Increases, and Correlations
Political mortality: on old people in the Senate and death probabilities
Positioning for a Potential Interest Rate Hike: Public Finance and More
Homicide: Trends, 1968-2020, and Provisional Counts Through June 2021
Suicide: Trends, 1968-2020, and Provisional Counts Through June 2021
Original Sin (or Pandora's Box) and Public Finance and Pensions
2021 U.S. January-June Cause-of-Death Ranking Table
Mortality Nuggets: Videos on 2020 Death Rates by Cause of Death, Querying WONDER, and Actuarial News
Top Causes of Death by Age Group, 2020: Death Rates
Mortality Nuggets: Videos on Death Numbers, Ranking Table for States' Mortality for 2020
Top Causes of Death by Age Group, 2020: Raw Numbers
While Teachers Agitate for Remote Teaching, They Should Remember Their Pensions
Happy Second Christmas: Epiphany, Data Visualization, and Sumo!
Have an Actuarial New Year! A few Actuarial Gifts and Recommendations